Word: follow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases where prisoners finally do break down and sign incriminating confessions, the rest of the military should perhaps follow the lead of the Air Force and discount the propaganda loss. Anyone, friend or enemy, who is persuaded by a forced confession doubtless had his mind already made up. Moreover, propaganda can backfire. The fact that it has been gained through the abuse of prisoners repels people. When the North Vietnamese put captured U.S. flyers on exhibit in Hanoi, foreign reaction was so adverse that the Vietnamese never restaged the spectacle...
...competition for primacy among the TV networks may not be as exciting as the Super Bowl or the Powder Puff Derby. But over the years it has drawn a substantial crowd of fans who follow the record books. The latest figures...
...redress against the bureaucratic machine. The feeling that only the rich and powerful can win against edicts from government offices is very often justified. Some countries have found the solution in an "ombudsman," an independent official who investigates citizens' complaints and curbs overzealous or arrogant bureaucrats. Americans might follow this example; create ombudsmen at all levels of government, who will help them fight city hall. City hall, wherever it is, will resist, but the effort must be made. One solution would be to form public-interest pressure groups to counter the lobbies and private-interest groups that inevitably will...
Some tavernes have already closed, and others may soon be forced to follow their example unless their musicians agree to share the losses by accepting smaller fees. One host tried offering patrons free plastic plates and cups to tear. The tranquilizer does not always work; a frustrated drinker in the capital's Skorpios tavern last week commandeered a dozen plates and had just finished shattering the last one when police grabbed him. It was the first arrest under the new decree. The word is about in the capital that some Athenians feel so blue about the latest blue...
...also wanted the Harvard community to think about those issues and those complexities, and not confine discussion of ways to elevate the intellectual content of ROTC courses. It is worth noting that the H-RPC report had implicitly called for a discussion of the moral and political issues to follow the abolition of credit and removal of department status. (In a letter to the CRIMSON, seven of the fifteen student members had explicitly condemned the militarism and class bias of ROTC, and called for a further discussion of the issues "as raised, for example...